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Animation. Economist Ha-Joon Chang explains why it is important for everyone to understand basic economics. He clarifies the often mystifying language of derivatives and quantitative easing, and explains how...
Series of programmes presented by BBC Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders which considers the recent economic crisis in the light of three giants of modern economic thinking: Keynes, Hayek and Marx.
Financial historian and writer Professor Niall Ferguson explores Western civilization’s global dominance. Based on Ferguson’s own book, Civilization: The West and the Rest, the six-part documentary looks...
While we are experiencing the biggest global economic slowdown for six decades, the has created the ECONOMIES IN CRISES web page that brings together a range of Radio 4 programmes broadcast over recent...
Adam Curtis’ series of films explores the idea that we have been colonised by the machines that we have built, seeing everything in the world through the eyes of computers. Episode 1, LOVE AND POWER looks...
The titans of 12 major companies, including Jacques Lemonnier of IBM France and Francois Dalle of L’Oreal, talk directly to the camera about power, hierarchy, trade unions, strikes, and self-management....
This programme tells the little-known story of Deng Xiaoping, the successor to Chairman Mao who attempted to start opening up the country to the West and introduce capitalist principles to the Chinese. When...
University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of the current economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within...
This series of three programmes focuses on the topics of business and finance. In September 2008, capitalism looked like it was on the brink of collapse. Just one week saw the biggest bankruptcy in US...
Commissioned to make a film for a teaching case at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, filmmaker Charles Mann drew upon seven years as a working economist in Turkey to produce a film that captures the...
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